St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

nothing short of
mind attuned to his 90.
torical work could give full Justice to
the magnitude of the subject. ::
THE GREAT SECRET 4
of the success of Minneapolis lies in
the fact it was settled by a class of
shrewd, long-sighted men, who early
read in the ''signS of the times" there
would soon be day when there would
be demand for great grain center
in this section as a pivotal
that was coming as sure as fate.
In the early day the greater part of the
wheat used here was simply drained
from the adjacent country; Southern
Minnesota sent small share, Iowa and
| Wisconsin made up the rest. A large
quantity of the cereal was hauled in by
| wagon, but now this is tale of the past.
| With the exception of few hundred
thousand bushels raised in the vicinity
of the city, it all comes rolling in by
rail. Dakota, Montana and Minnesota
| grow the main crop that is handled in
this city. The roads bringing wheat
here and carrying out the product are
the st. Paul, Minneapolis 81 Manitoba,
Paul, Minneapolis d Omaha, Min
neapOlis & st. Louis, Chicago
81 Northwestern, Minneapolis
and Pacific, Minnesota & Northwest
ern, Chicago, Milwaukee 81 st. Paul,
Wisconsin Central and Burlington &
| Northern. There is no complete record
kept by these roads showing the pro-
| portion that they haul from west of the
state line. 1t is reckon ed, however, in
a general way, that the proportion from
Dakota territory is rapidly increasing,
while that from Minnesota is about on
| the same average as it has been for the
past few years. This year, despite the
fact that the receipts have been I'M
precedented in extent, the crop of the
| state has been rather poor in several
sections, owing to severe drouth,
and the ravages of that farmers
pest-the chinch bug. Dakota has
nObly kept her record up, in fact
SURPRISING all her previous records in
being the greatest wheat yielding coun-
try in the United States. The Red river
valley has maintained its enviable repu-
tation for fine grades of wheat, some of
the best and richest looking grain sam
pied in Minneapolis this past year hav
ing come, as usual, from that fertile
vale. Minneapolis then, it may be pre-
Sumed, can be looked upon as the capt.
tai (aS far as the grain trade goes), at all
the states of Iowa, Minnesota and Da-
kOta. From this vast territory she
DRAWS HER LIES BLOOD,
as it were. 1t is safe then to believe
the public must have some little inter-
est in city possessing such drawing
attractions. The main popularity about
! Minneapolis is the wonderful river
and the great falls. Without the falls
where would the mills be, and next,
where would the city be? Certainly it
never would have attained to the metro
politan wealth and greatness it enjoys
to-day. 1t would be impossible to write.
of the mills and not mention the fails
of st. Anthony, because the one could
not be without the other. Ever since
the population of the city began to as
sumo decent proportions. the falls were
constant source of anxiety to the peo-
pie. The stratam of rock forming the
bed of the river was superimposed
upon white sandstone of a
very friable nature. In conse-
quence recessions proceeded rapidly
by the combined action of the
frost and water, till in 1851 fully ninety,
feet of the superstructure fell in one
huge mass into the foaming water.
Companies controlling the water power
made in 1866 an attempt to protect the
ClCSb VI ld1Ao ny q bihiOOt oPlOA, Wv
| this was carried off in the spring. Dur-
| ing the winter of 1SS0-S1 occurred the
| breaking down of the limestone ledge
above the tunnel, when into the hole
tumbled part of Main street, and fora
short time grave fears were expressed
for the safety of the huge Pillsbury A
mill. AS far back as 1869, however,
| the people had become alive to the pre-
cious value to them of the falls, and
| a careful survey with view to their
preservation was made in that year by.
| James B. Frances, of Massachusetts,.
| The government became interested in
the matter and from 1S70-79 appropria-
| ted 1855, ZOO for the work. This sum
was further supplemented by the con-
tributions of citizens to the amount of
S334,5o0. The whole cost of the i'm
provementS thus buried out of sight was
about
ONE MILLION DOLLARS,
and from it came the preservation Of
| the falls, with its 10000 horse power,
and the future hope and prosperity of
Minneapolis was thus assured. The
| mainstay of the mills having been de-
scribed, 1t Is time now to make slight
mention Of those vast buildings
themselves. The initial mill was the
small government affair erected in 1922.
1t was small stone grist mill to supply